[Distutils] distutils version numbering
Stefan Seefeld
seefeld at sympatico.ca
Wed Jan 5 22:54:33 CET 2005
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> No, there was no distutils release after 1.0.3.
but the version shipping with python 2.3 has API changes,
so how can I figure out what version I'm using ?
> Starting with Python 2.4, distutils seem to follow
> the Python version number (even though I'm not really
> sure who made that decision and what the motivation
> was).
>
> You should probably switch on both the distutils
> and Python version (it was and still is possible
> to install the current distutils package for
> Python 2.1).
Ok, let me rephrase: script permissions are fixed
if either I'm running python 2.3 or above, or
distutils' own version is 2.4 or above. Correct ?
Thanks,
Stefan
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